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X owns the trademark for "X" simply by using it, whether it was registered with a trademark office or not. It certainly doesn't hurt that Elon's company registe
by eccodown 3y ago
X owns the trademark for "X" simply by using it, whether it was registered with a trademark office or not. It certainly doesn't hurt that Elon's company registered X.com in 1993, then he purchased it from Paypal in 2017 and has been using it in various capacities since then.
- thisgoesnowhere 3y agoHasn't it been a blank page with a x for a long ass time?
- eccodown 3y agoTransmitting an 'x' online, seems like he's in the data transmission business. It has also been used as a redirect to The Boring Company website to sell hats.
- ehhthing 3y agoThey owned the trademark for X scoped to banking and financial services. Meta owns the trademark scoped to social media.
- eccodown 3y agoTrademark is established by use. Registration can offer an extra level of protection, but is not necessary to own a trademark. Elon has been using his X.com since he bought it back from PayPal in 2017, which interestingly is around the time some of these other 'X' registrations took place.
- CydeWeys 3y agoIs Meta using the trademark "X" for social media though? I haven't seen it. They're not gonna win anything if they're not actually using it. That's like the first and most important thing.
- winddude 3y agoand it sounds like the logo is just a unicode character <https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F>, or from a standard font <https://catalog.monotype.com/font/monotype/special-alphabets/4 https://catalog.monotype.com/font/monotype/special-alphabets...>.